Quotes About Science

In our material world, every single happening or event of whatever kind involves a conversion of energy from one into another of its many forms.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and so the total amount of energy which is present before and after any physical transaction will not be changed. This principle is called 'the conservation of energy'.

Joule, that is the work done when one Newton acts through one metre.*

stress' in a solid is rather like the 'pressure' in a liquid or a gas. It is a measure of how hard the atoms and molecules which make up the material are being pushed together or pulled apart as a result of external forces.

to get anywhere worth while without the higher mathematics is not only impossible but that it would be vaguely immoral if you could.

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections.

The scientific kind of energy with which we are dealing is officially defined as 'capacity for doing work', and it has the dimensions of 'force-multiplied-by-distance'.

slope of the stress-strain diagram measures how readily each material strains elastically under a given stress.

The quantity of energy required to break a given cross-section of a material defines its 'toughness', which is nowadays more often called its 'fracture energy' or 'work of fracture'.

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections in materials and structures.

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

the SI (System International) habit is to make the unit of force the Newton.

strain is a ratio, which is to say a number, and it has no units, SI, British or anything else. All

Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

1. In our scientifically oriented culture, traditional understandings of morality and related notions are considered passé.

2. The traditional view is neither scientifically testable nor easily compatible with evolution.

Scientific Naturalism Just what is scientific naturalism (hereafter, naturalism)? Succinctly put, it is the view that the spatio-temporal universe of physical objects, properties, events, and processes that are well established by scientific forms of investigation is all there is, was, or ever will be.

There is no nonempirical knowledge, especially no theological or ethical knowledge. Science and science alone carries authority in culture because the alleged possession of knowledge gives people authority, and science and science alone is perceived to have knowledge. Outside science — especially in theological, ethical, or political discussions — the makeup man is more important than the speech-writer (feeling and image are more important than reason, knowledge, and truth).

For many secularists, knowledge is obtained solely by means of the senses and science. Something is true and reasonable to believe to the degree that it can be tested by the five senses — it can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or felt. Seeing is believing. Likewise, knowledge is identical to scientific knowledge. If you can prove something scientifically, then it is culturally permissible or even obligatory to believe it.

Science is the measure of all things, and when a scientist speaks about something, he or she speaks ex cathedra

What I do reject is the idea that science and science alone can claim to give us knowledge.

how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.

Data that conflicts with beliefs is often ignored," the doctor said. "It has been a serious problem in every field, including in medicine, even among those who should know better.

The sunlight lying on an acre of farm land weighs several tons, believe it or not.